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Shogi, also known as Japanese chess, is a two-player strategy board game. Its earliest predecessor of the game, chaturanga, originated in India in the 6th century was brought to Japan where it spawned a number of variants. Two players, Sente (Black; more literally, person with the first move) and Gote (White; person with the second move), play on a board composed of rectangles in a grid of 9 ranks (rows) by 9 files (columns). The rectangles are undifferenti

In J-Subculture we are big fan of the Japanese stationery brands and Tombow is one of our favourite ones, we already introduce you some of their best products like the Tombow AirPress Pen, with a cool characteristic, the capacity to write even when you are doing overhead, thanks to his unique air pressure system. Today we want to introduce you another cool stationery product developed by Tombow, the Tombow Zoom Multi Function Pen and Mechanical Pencil. Sometimes, wh

Surprisingly, you can protect nib from dry out by only one hand.Actually, this is big weak point of fountain pen.Nib is very weak to dry. For protecting from dry out, it is needed to write continuously.But normally president's speech is long.Let's knock, knock! Don't forget to knock, even if you are nominated for members of cabinet. By the way, Capless have more than 50 years history.However the color is not turned into sepia.In the long history, design has been changed several times.So, it has

My Neighbor Totoro is one of the best known Japanese animation movies of all time, and probably the best movie from its animation studio, Ghibli Studio. For most of us My Neighbor Totoro was our first Japanese animation movie, the one who introduced us to the Japanese animation, and in many cases the movie who awakened our interest. This beautiful story and one of its main characters, Totoro, that scary and at the same time cute monster, teach us to protect and love the mother nature.